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first time seeing this thread for some reason. Thank God that old building is gone. The demo is now complete and the clean up is beginning. Its cool because you see quality development crawling north along High Street. Dont get me wrong, all of short north has quality development, but it used to be once you hit this building, it began to fizzle, IMO. But now, this project connects the rest of High all the way up until the UDF just a block north of this. Hopefully someone will move in there next and develop that parking lot and UDF next to eachother. With the recent completion of the Dakota and the soon to be Jackson condos, its fun watching this area totally fill in with quality developments.

grasscat has updated construction photos on his blog. www.buildingcincinnati.blogspot.com

stop itt!

the city of cincy is more and more made up of the real rich and the real poor. the middle class families are moving out/have already moved out.

yea, I saw the video. Still pretty blah to me unfortunately.

my guess is they would do random patrolling and ask for peoples tickets. atleast this is what they do in amsterdam. You can technically ride for free on their trams/streetcars (and I did) but if you get caught on there without one by random patrols, its a hefty fine.

thanks for these. wow, they are coming along quickly it seems.

yea...they are tight on that. however, i snuck up and got my camera out and was taking a picture of the mona lisa when some random guy put his hand in front of my camera and said "no". if it wasnt for him I would have got it. oh well, its kind of underwhelming if you ask me.

I don't know...that seems like a good way to protect the emerging nightlife scene in the CBD. There has always been questions as to whether The Banks would hurt efforts in the CBD and in particular around FS. By essentially prohibiting bars, you'll encourage them to maybe cluster around the emerging bar/club scene that I mentioned. I think it's smart. well I dont know about you, but by the time i am in the market for a place(ill be 24 yrs old and single), I am not going to want to necessarily live in a place where families hoard. I dunno, maybe its just me.

I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I'm moving there in a couple weeks; the Mrs. just wasn't down with moving to OTR or Northside like I wanted to, for safety purposes. Or if truth be told, I'm just a huge fan of clock towers and "urban parks". :cry: :x :-)

maybe so, but the whole 'no bar can operate unless 30% of their revenue is from food' seems dumb if you ask me.

bars*

and oh, she is 29 and single, so she didnt do family stuff, more just going to bard, etc I think. She didnt really get into too much detail, she just talked a lot about downtown bars.

overheard a woman in my office on the phone talking about her recent weekend in Cincy... she basically said "there's just so much to do in Cincy....yea, I had a lot of fun" I work at Nationwide in Columbus for the time being.

long were you there...(to finish my last thought)

beautiful. well done. how

ok, i dont know which is D3 and am too lazy to look it up. Could someone just tell me.

great pictures once again. One thing I thought about Paris though....the architecture was pretty uniform and didn't vary much like other Euro. cities. Except Montemartre, which was a separate city until the 1800's I think, the architecture, while beautiful, was almost too uniform. Anyone agree, and doesn't this have something to do with Napoleon or something...

yea I like it too. Seems like theres a lot of us who like it....

^people only grab onto tall buildings as a point of pride when they have nothing else to take pride in. People aren't like...oh, I am from New York and we have so many tall buildings. They're like, I'm from New York, the cultural capital of this hemisphere!

I dont think many people care if Cincy has a new tallest or not. I for one would like to see the city have a new tallest. Before, in the other thread, I was simply saying a city is not defined by how tall her buildings are and that it really doesn't mater.

^werent we right on topic......talking about how important building height is when Cincy is going to build a new tallest???

yea, it does kind of look like a suburban office building. I think it kinda looks like Fisher, but I like Fisher and not this...I dunno, theres just something about it thats unappealing. You can go to the union website to check out renderings, etc. Check out grasscat's links around the image he posted.

Uuuuhhhh Rome doesn't and Paris's isn't actually in Paris...its in the burbs.

^and again, the height of their buildings has nothing to do with the success of their cities...its just a small dick syndrome that most our cities and the people that live there suffer from. Whats most important in a city is street level, not 1,000 ft. up in the air.